The Desert Wolves

The Desert Wolves where one of the many guitar bands circulating around Manchester in 1987. They played a mellow guitar pop that was styled by their lead singer and driving force Martin King. He was somebody who unashamedly loved 60's pop music and wasn't afraid to wear his pop heart on his sleeve. Coming together with two sibling guitarists David and Nick Platten they formed tight and classically named songwriting team Platten King Platten. 

 

They never entered the outsider angst of The Smiths, the political chicanery of Easterhouse or the arty insanity of James. They wrote songs about love that would have had even Burt Bacarach drooling, certainly not the typical Mancunian fayre of the time. The band was completed by Richard Jones on bass, and Craig Winterburn on the drums. 

 

The Desert Wolves felt like just the kind of band to build on pop sensibility whilst offering a slightly more mainstream tilt at jangling C86 fever. While The Man From Delmonte -another Ugly Man Records band- where on the edge of mass acceptance with there thrashing style and openly ambiguous lyrics, The Desert Wolves were certainly more classical boys guitar band fitted nicely into the general pre baggy jangle of 1987. [SOURCE: THE CHRONICLE OF AN UGLY MEN]